The statistic shows the average hourly cost of critical application outages, according to a 2016 survey of IT professionals. As of that period, 11 percent of respondents reported the average hourly cost of a critical application outage as being over 75 thousand U.S. dollars.
Average cost per hour of downtime after a critical application outage in the United States, as of 2016
IT professionals of U.S.-based companies with 100 to 5,000 employees*
Supplementary notes
The question was phrased by the source as follows: "... what is the average cost per hour of downtime (lost revenue productivity, brand damage, etc.)?"
* Respondents who have experienced a critical application outage in the past six months
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